Utah man says he Paid Sen. Reid to make investigation disappear

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah businessman accused of running a fraudulent $350 million software scheme says the state attorney general arranged a deal to pay Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a federal investigation into the software business disappear.

St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson told The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/UGd4Ww) that newly elected Attorney General John Swallow set up a deal in 2010 for Johnson to pay $600,000 to people connected to Reid.